| Christopher Mitchell | |
| Birth Name: | Christopher Mitchell Driver |
| Birth Date: | 21 May 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Surrey, England |
| Death Place: | King's Lynn, Norfolk, England |
| Nationality: | English |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Parents: | Norman Mitchell |
| Years Active: | 1967 - 2001 |
Christopher Mitchell Driver (21 May 1948 – 22 February 2001) was an English actor known for his role in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum as Gunner Nigel 'Parky' Parkin.[1] [2] His film credits include Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967), This, That and the Other (1969), The Sex Thief (1973) and What's Up Superdoc! (1978).[3]
He appeared in two episodes of Only Fools and Horses ("May the Force Be With You" in 1983 and "To Hull and Back" in 1985), playing policeman Terry Hoskins.[4] [5] In addition he had parts in many other comedies such as: Keeping Up Appearances; Never the Twain and That's My Boy.
He died from cancer at the age of 52, a month before his father, actor Norman Mitchell, and in the same year as Kenneth MacDonald, another actor with a role as a gunner in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, who died of a heart attack aged 50.[6] [7]